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  <h1 class="refname">MongoCollection::__toString</h1>
  <p class="verinfo">(PECL mongo &gt;=0.9.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">MongoCollection::__toString</span> &mdash; <span class="dc-title">String representation of this collection</span></p>

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 <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-mongocollection.--tostring-description">
  <h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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   <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoCollection::__toString</strong></span>(): <span class="type">string</span></div>

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  <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
  <p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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  <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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   Returns the full name of this collection.
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    <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>MongoCollection::__toString()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php<br /><br />$m&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;new&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">MongoClient</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$c1&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$m</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">foo</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">bar</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">baz</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Working&nbsp;with&nbsp;collection&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$c1</span><span style="color: #DD0000">."</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$c2&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$m</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">selectCollection</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'[]'</span><span style="color: #007700">,&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'&amp;'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Working&nbsp;with&nbsp;collection&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$c2</span><span style="color: #DD0000">."</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>
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    <div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
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<div class="cdata"><pre>
Working with collection foo.bar.baz.
Working with collection [].&amp;.
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